Friday, May 2, 2014

Searcher

I think that breastfeeding at an old age is weird. A child should not need
to drink his/her mother’s milk if they are able to ingest other types of food.
I understand if a mother wants to give her child breast milk instead of
formula, but when the child moves on to harder food they should not need to
consume the breast milk. In this article I found it is talking about a women
that breastfed her child until she was six years old. It goes into how this
mother wrote a book on it and tells us some of the reactions that people had
from it. Most of the reactions were negative because they thought it was
inappropriate. The article says that some men that read it saw the breastfeeding
as some type of pleasure the mother receives from it. They said that she
probably gets turned on by it. I have some sort of the same reaction. I do not
think that it is necessary for a child to be breastfed for this amount of time
when there is other ways to have your child receive the same nutrients. I think
that the mother secretly likes to do it because it keeps an attachment to the
child, which is something that I see as selfish. I disagree strongly to
breastfeeding a child past 3.